GeForce MX250 vs Mobility Radeon HD 5870 Crossfire

Place in performance ranking	599	542
Place by popularity	not in top-100	not in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluation	no data	2.38
Architecture	Terascale 2 (2009−2015)	Pascal (2016−2021)
GPU code name	Broadway-XT	N17S-G2
Market segment	Laptop	Laptop
Release date	7 January 2010 (14 years ago)	20 February 2019 (5 years ago)
Current price	$56	$1165

Cost-effectiveness evaluation

Performance to price ratio. The higher, the better.

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Detailed specifications

General performance parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. These parameters indirectly speak of performance, but for precise assessment you have to consider their benchmark and gaming test results. Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked.

Pipelines / CUDA cores	1600	384
Core clock speed	700 MHz	1518 MHz
Boost clock speed	no data	1582 MHz
Number of transistors	no data	1,800 million
Manufacturing process technology	40 nm	14 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	120 Watt	10/25 Watt
Texture fill rate	no data	24.91

Form factor & compatibility

Information on Mobility Radeon HD 5870 Crossfire and GeForce MX250 compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For notebook video cards it's notebook size, connection slot and bus, if the video card is inserted into a slot instead of being soldered to the notebook motherboard.

Laptop size	large	large
Interface	no data	PCIe 3.0 x4
Supplementary power connectors	no data	None

VRAM capacity and type

Parameters of VRAM installed: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Integrated GPUs have no dedicated video RAM and use a shared part of system RAM.

Memory type	DDR3, GDDR3, GDDR5	GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount	2x1 GB	4 GB
Memory bus width	128 Bit	64 Bit
Memory clock speed	1000 MHz	7000 MHz
Memory bandwidth	no data	48.06 GB/s
Shared memory	-	-

Connectivity and outputs

Types and number of video connectors present on the reviewed GPUs. As a rule, data in this section is precise only for desktop reference ones (so-called Founders Edition for NVIDIA chips). OEM manufacturers may change the number and type of output ports, while for notebook cards availability of certain video outputs ports depends on the laptop model rather than on the card itself.

Display Connectors

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No outputs

API compatibility

List of supported graphics and general-purpose computing APIs, including their specific versions.

DirectX	11	12 (12_1)
Shader Model	no data	6.4
OpenGL	no data	4.6
OpenCL	no data	1.2
Vulkan	no data	1.2
CUDA	no data	6.1

Synthetic benchmark performance

Non-gaming benchmark performance comparison. The combined score is measured on a 0-100 point scale.

Combined synthetic benchmark score

This is our combined benchmark performance score. We are regularly improving our combining algorithms, but if you find some perceived inconsistencies, feel free to speak up in comments section, we usually fix problems quickly.

ATI Mobility HD 5870 Crossfire 4.87

GeForce MX250 6.27
+28.7%

GeForce MX250 outperforms Mobility Radeon HD 5870 Crossfire by 29% based on our aggregated benchmark results.

3DMark Vantage Performance

3DMark Vantage is an outdated DirectX 10 benchmark using 1280x1024 screen resolution. It taxes the graphics card with two scenes, one depicting a girl escaping some militarized base located within a sea cave, the other displaying a space fleet attack on a defenseless planet. It was discontinued in April 2017, and Time Spy benchmark is now recommended to be used instead.

Benchmark coverage: 17%

ATI Mobility HD 5870 Crossfire 13046

GeForce MX250 16488
+26.4%

GeForce MX250 outperforms Mobility Radeon HD 5870 Crossfire by 26% in 3DMark Vantage Performance.

Gaming performance

Let's see how good the compared graphics cards are for gaming. Particular gaming benchmark results are measured in FPS.

Average FPS across all PC games

Here are the average frames per second in a large set of popular games across different resolutions:

900p	53 −22.6%	65−70 +22.6%
Full HD	54 +135%	23 −135%

FPS performance in popular games

Full HD
Low Preset

Cyberpunk 2077

8−9

−75%

14
+75%

Full HD
Medium Preset

Assassin's Creed Odyssey	9−10 −111%	19 +111%
Assassin's Creed Valhalla	4−5 −225%	13 +225%
Battlefield 5	14−16 −71.4%	24 +71.4%
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare	16−18 −43.8%	23 +43.8%
Cyberpunk 2077	8−9 −37.5%	11 +37.5%
Far Cry 5	10−11 −90%	19 +90%
Far Cry New Dawn	10−12 −90.9%	21 +90.9%
Forza Horizon 4	16−18 −93.8%	31 +93.8%
Hitman 3	10−12 −36.4%	14−16 +36.4%
Horizon Zero Dawn	9−10 −44.4%	13 +44.4%
Red Dead Redemption 2	9−10 −55.6%	14 +55.6%
Shadow of the Tomb Raider	12−14 −50%	18 +50%
Watch Dogs: Legion	6−7 −50%	9−10 +50%

Full HD
High Preset

Assassin's Creed Odyssey	9−10 −44.4%	13 +44.4%
Assassin's Creed Valhalla	4−5 −75%	7−8 +75%
Battlefield 5	14−16 −35.7%	19 +35.7%
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare	16−18 +0%	16 +0%
Cyberpunk 2077	8−9 −25%	10−11 +25%
Far Cry 5	10−11 −70%	17 +70%
Far Cry New Dawn	10−12 −63.6%	18 +63.6%
Forza Horizon 4	16−18 −50%	24 +50%
Hitman 3	10−12 +57.1%	7 −57.1%
Horizon Zero Dawn	9−10 +50%	6 −50%
Metro Exodus	7−8 +0%	7 +0%
Red Dead Redemption 2	9−10 +12.5%	8 −12.5%
Shadow of the Tomb Raider	12−14 +9.1%	11 −9.1%
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt	10−11 −110%	21 +110%
Watch Dogs: Legion	6−7 −50%	9−10 +50%

Full HD
Ultra Preset

Assassin's Creed Odyssey	9−10 +28.6%	7 −28.6%
Assassin's Creed Valhalla	4−5 −75%	7−8 +75%
Battlefield 5	14−16 +0%	14 +0%
Cyberpunk 2077	8−9 −25%	10−11 +25%
Far Cry 5	10−11 −60%	16 +60%
Far Cry New Dawn	10−12 −54.5%	17 +54.5%
Forza Horizon 4	16−18 +0%	16 +0%
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt	10−11 −20%	12 +20%
Watch Dogs: Legion	6−7 −50%	9−10 +50%

1440p
High Preset

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare	8−9 −12.5%	9−10 +12.5%
Hitman 3	8−9 −25%	10−11 +25%
Horizon Zero Dawn	10−12 −9.1%	12−14 +9.1%
Metro Exodus	3−4 −33.3%	4−5 +33.3%
Red Dead Redemption 2	3−4 −33.3%	4−5 +33.3%
Shadow of the Tomb Raider	8−9 −12.5%	9−10 +12.5%

1440p
Ultra Preset

Assassin's Creed Odyssey	3−4 −66.7%	5−6 +66.7%
Cyberpunk 2077	2−3 −50%	3−4 +50%
Far Cry 5	7−8 −42.9%	10−11 +42.9%
Far Cry New Dawn	4−5 −100%	8−9 +100%
Forza Horizon 4	6−7 −50%	9−10 +50%
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt	4−5 −50%	6−7 +50%
Watch Dogs: Legion	0−1	1−2

4K
High Preset

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare	3−4 −33.3%	4−5 +33.3%
Hitman 3	5−6 −20%	6−7 +20%
Horizon Zero Dawn	8−9 +0%	8−9 +0%
Red Dead Redemption 2	2−3 −50%	3−4 +50%
Shadow of the Tomb Raider	1−2 −100%	2−3 +100%
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt	1−2 −200%	3−4 +200%

4K
Ultra Preset

Assassin's Creed Odyssey	2−3 −50%	3−4 +50%
Assassin's Creed Valhalla	2−3 +0%	2−3 +0%
Cyberpunk 2077	0−1	0−1
Far Cry 5	5−6 +0%	5−6 +0%
Far Cry New Dawn	7−8 −14.3%	8−9 +14.3%
Forza Horizon 4	3−4 −100%	6−7 +100%
Watch Dogs: Legion	0−1	1−2

This is how ATI Mobility HD 5870 Crossfire and GeForce MX250 compete in popular games:

GeForce MX250 is 23% faster in 900p
ATI Mobility HD 5870 Crossfire is 135% faster in 1080p

Here's the range of performance differences observed across popular games:

in Hitman 3, with 1080p resolution and the High Preset, the ATI Mobility HD 5870 Crossfire is 57% faster than the GeForce MX250.
in Assassin's Creed Valhalla, with 1080p resolution and the Medium Preset, the GeForce MX250 is 225% faster than the ATI Mobility HD 5870 Crossfire.

All in all, in popular games: